Des Moines River Headwaters EarthCache

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Hidden : 8/29/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

The terrain to the signage and dam is flat and close to parking. You can walk across the dam and people often fish from the dam. Lake Shetek state park is nearby. "Shetek" is Ojibwe for "Pelican".

European and American expeditions visited this area during th elate 1700’s and early 1800’s. The Nicollet and Fremont expedition in June of 1838 described and reported the geological features, weather, plants, wildlife and people of the Des Moines River headwaters and the Lake Shetek area in detail.

The Dakota Indians called this river “IN-YAN SA-SA WA-KPA” or “river of the red stone”.
The name given by the early French explorers, Des Moines, is an abbreviated name of an Indian tribe that lived along this river.
Neil Currie built two dams in 1873 to power a flower mill at Currie, Minnesota. One at the outlet of Lake Shetek and a 2nd across the Des Moines river. The mill ceased in 1917.
The dam sets the lake level _______ feet above sea level during ordinary precipitation years.

The plaque contains a plate map of the city of Currie which shows the mill ponds running through the city. What is the date on the map?

From the Minnesota DNR website - Lake Shetek lies in the Coteau des Prairie or "highlands of the prairie" region of Minnesota. This geological area seperates the Minnesota River from the Missouri River watershed. Glaciers moved across the Coteau region two million to 13,000 years ago. During the last stage of glaciation, this area was covered with deep deposits or rock debris called glacial till.

Glacial till, which accumulated at the margins of the glacier, formed irregular hills and depressions called moraines. Lake Shetek lies in the Altamont Moraine complex. About 14,000 years ago, the glaciers receded, producing swift rivers of meltwater which sculpted channels and formed outwash plains. Small landslides dammed meltwater channels and depressions which backed up water and eventually created Lake Shetek.

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